"Gender is a journey. It lasts a lifetime, leading your body through a path of self-discovery, experiences and, sometimes, restrictions. For some, the gender experience leads them beyond the binary.And this is the case for Laurence Philomène." – British Journal of Photography, photobooks to take...

Fierce and irreverent, these dot-to-dots lead you to a fabulous finish! Pick up a pencil and prepare to go wild with it! Twenty fresh puzzles from the talented hand of Jennie Edwards will keep you guessing right to the end – when each reveals...

Families come in all forms, but parental love is universal . . .As a closeted teen, Ian wondered if he would ever be able to live openly with a male partner. Years later, he had not one but two partners in a polyamorous Throuple—what...

For thirty summers Tove and her partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the gulf of Finland, where they would live, paint and write, energised by the shifting seascapes and the island's austere charms....

Joe Lycett is an incredibly right-wing commentator, comedian, television presenter, gardener, cage-fighter, Spectator columnist, fancy boy, bandit, pharmacist and knee-pain advocate. He is also a world-renowned portraitist, and some of the world's most influential and infamous people - Liz Truss, Eamonn Holmes, Mick Hucknall...

From “one of the essential voices in American poetry” (New York Times) comes a rich new collection of expansive, light-footed, and cheerfully foreboding poems oddly in tune with our strange and evolving presentThe first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen...

Why are feet so hot? When Jesus washed his bros' feet, what kind of love was he showing? Why did feet show up in poetry written during a medieval outbreak of gonorrhoea? How did early sexologists convince us that loving feet is deviant? And...

PRE-ORDER NOW: 5TH JUNE 2025 It’s 1996, and Jeremy has met the British boy of his dreams — just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples federal rights, including immigration. The pair snatch time in...

A Guide for People with Flexible Sexuality Society recognises a more diverse range of sexual identities than ever before, but people often still think we have to choose one and stick to it forever. If the idea of a single, unchanging sexual identity just...

In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was...

PRE-ORDER NOW: 29TH JANUARY 2026 By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring family, queer desire, pop culture, and raceThe late Anthony Veasna So’s debut...

To be trans and disabled means to have experienced harassment, discrimination, loneliness, often poverty, to have struggled with feeling unworthy of love.To be trans and disabled means experiencing ableism within our trans communities and transphobia within our disabled communities.To be trans and disabled means...

Cristina's son was about to embark on gender-affirming care that would likely cause infertility, when she realised the need to support both her child and the adult he would become, and give him the right to have children of his own. In doing so...

In his intimate memoir, legendary ballet dancer and entertainer Wayne Sleep looks back on the extraordinary times he's lived through. Wayne Sleep has danced with ballet legends Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, partied with Freddie Mercury and performed with Princess Diana, becoming her close...

Inspired by a true story, Love Around the World is the beautiful and heart-warming adventure of two women’s journey to marry each other in every country where same-sex marriage is legal.Fleur and Julian are two women very much in love. When they decide to get married,...

A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation.In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women’s March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story...

Everything You Need to Know From Gay to Ze 'A must read for any queer person who is, or wants to be, a parent.' Will Young. 'I wish this book had been available when my kids were young. It would have made me feel less...

Lorcán Black’s brilliant Seren debut, Strange Husbandry - a nominee for the 2024 Forward Prize - contrasts modern-day stories of queer passion with older stories from myth and history. The title references not just husbandry in farming of crops and animals, but a more...

The hilarious and piercing memoir about growing up gay in a not-so-gay world. ‘A beautiful celebration of being different.’ TOM ALLEN ‘An important story, told with a sharp wit and disarming humour’ MOHSIN ZAIDI author of A Dutiful Boy‘ Brilliant, spectacularly witty and genuinely...

AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDON. When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty-five-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby. Growing...

Part memoir, mostly self-help, How Do I Sexy? A Guide for Trans Queers strives to provide affirming and helpful direction to those struggling with finding their sexual selves in a landscape rife with misogynistic, transphobic, and homophobic ideals and expectations.  Mx. Nillin Lore brings...

Queer Histories, Queer Struggles The third edition of this revolutionary text includes new chapters and an introduction from the author himself that contextualizes the work within today’s fight for liberation and equality in Canada. Originally published in 1987 during the panic around HIV/AIDS, The...

In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of marriage, with a focus on the UK. Wedded Wife tells a remarkable story of how this institution has developed from the ancient customs of the stone...

A diverse anthology of personal essays Sometimes, all you have is the reliability of a knit stitch, the rhythmic motion of a quilting needle, or the sturdy framework of a loom. Amid the pandemic, newcomers to fiber arts discovered its soothing embrace, while those...

Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace Ranging from the terrifying embrace of the slave ship's hold to the racist encoding of 'cuddly' toys, On Cuddling is a unique combination of essay and poetry that contends with the way racial violence is enacted through...

 Schitt's Creek and the Legacy of Queer Television From the show's modest beginnings to its massive Emmy sweep, You Are My Happy Ending tells the story of how Schitt’s Creek became the surprise hit that changed the way we think about LGBTQ relationships. Cultural...

The Lives of Immigrant Sons The stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles. Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA could not have felt further removed from...

The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear A remarkable time capsule of Simi Valley, 1979, written before the author would become one of LA’s most influential artists of subsequent decades.  When Sean DeLear died prematurely in Vienna in 2017, his friends discovered - among...

Born into the slums of Glasgow in the late '70s, a 4-year-old John's life is filled with the debris of alcoholism and poverty. Soon after witnessing a drowning, his mother's addictions take over their lives, leaving him starving in their flat, awaiting her return....

WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023' Women's sports have needed a manifesto for a long time. With Good for a Girl we finally have one' Malcolm...